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Anti-Choice Groups Oppose Anti-Terrorism Legislation

May 22, 2011 - 9:09pm (Print)

The FACE Act exists simply to keep anti-choice extremists from using violence or other terrorist tactics against abortion clinics and patients. Anyone "pro-life" should oppose terrorism, so why are anti-choicers fighting FACE instead?

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Terrorizing Abortion Providers: The “Other Abortion War” Quietly Continues

by Carole Joffe, University of California

April 5, 2011 - 6:54pm (Print)

This war on providers has been going on so long it has become essentially “the new normal,” with significant public attention only when a provider is murdered.

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South Dakota Really Does Not Like Safe, Legal Abortion

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

March 27, 2011 - 7:27pm (Print)

South Dakota passes most restrictive abortion law in the country, and the threat of anti-choice terrorism is growing. Also, a cute new chapbook tells you all you need to know about your cycle, and then some.

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The C Street Family, Terrorism, And Abortion On TV

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

October 24, 2010 - 8:42pm (Print)

Jeff Sharlet comes back on to talk about his further research into a secretive right wing group called The Family. Also, anti-choice terrorism predicts larger right wing terrorism. And why can't good girl TV characters get abortions?

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Politics, Paternalism, and Father Figures

by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

January 13, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

The American media's obsession with turning all of our politicians into psuedo father figures is making babies of all of us.

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Michigan State Lawmakers Question Terrorism Charges for HIV-positive Man

by Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow

November 10, 2009 - 9:08am (Print)

An HIV-positive Macomb County man is facing charges created under Michigan’s 2004 terrorism laws for biting another man in a neighborhood scuffle. That, HIV advocates, state lawmakers and legal experts say is “cowardly” and “nonsense” and increases ignorance and stigma surrounding the virus.

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"Law and Order" Lies and Panders About Anti-Choice Terrorism

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

November 2, 2009 - 8:15am (Print)

"Law and Order" anti-choice nonsense, with clips! Also, the laws and ethics regarding fertility treatments, and questions about whether or not to vaccinate boys for HPV.

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Since When Are TERRORISTS allowed to give Press Interviews?

reader diary by Lorraine Berry, SUNY Cortland

July 27, 2009 - 12:49pm (Print)

Why is the man who murdered Dr. Tiller being allowed to give interviews from jail?

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Should Tiller's Assassin Be Charged As A Domestic Terrorist?

by Lindsay Beyerstein, RH Reality Check

July 21, 2009 - 10:00am (Print)

The man who shot a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C. was labeled by the FBI as a domestic terrorist, yet Scott Roeder, who assassinated Dr. George Tiller and who has been associated with a range of anti-choice groups that engage in violent rhetoric and clinic blockades has not. Should he be charged as a domestic terrorist? Many in the pro-choice community think the ultimate costs of doing so may outweigh the benefits.

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Terrorism and the Pro-Life Movement

by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

June 2, 2009 - 7:59am (Print)

Violence is inherent to the pro-life movement in the way that it was inherent to the preservation of segregation in the South.

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